Meta rec

The conference is over, I'm on my way back to Munich, and am looking forward to catching up with Elementary and Doctor Who (despite the fact it's another Gatiss episode). Meanwhile, because sometimes the fandom gods love me, lettered, she of the fantastic Responsible Science series, aka the smartest, most layered fanfiction The Avengers has inspired so far, has written 8000 words meta on Iron Man 3: Here.

(Still not using the icon I really want to use for fear of spoilery implications.)

Elementary 1.21

In which the scriptwriter makes a naming pun and also appears to be a Homeland fan. (Beware of a Homeland s2 spoiler in my review.)

( Also, Holmes & Watson at work make me wonder how I'll live without them once the season is over )

Rarewomen went live!

The gifts have been revealed, with author identity from the get go. Rec posts to follow in the days ahead, but for now, just what I wrote, and what I got. I was matched in The Borgias, and my prompt asked for Sancia. Who shows up only in a few season 1 episodes and has not many scenes in them, so she was a rare woman indeed. But I enjoyed fleshing her out wiht a bit of history and speculation, and besides, outsider takes on the ensemble are always fun to write. And thus, I wrote my first Borgias fanfiction:

More composition and fierce quality (6108 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Borgias
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sancia & Vannozza, Sancia & Rodrigo Borgia, Sancia/Juan Borgia, Sancia & Alfonso, Sancia & Lucrezia Borgia, Rodrigo Borgia/Vannozza dei Cattanei, Sancia & Ferrante of Naples, Sancia/Gioffre Borgia
Characters: Sancia (Borgias), Rodrigo Borgia, Vannozza dei Cattanei, Juan Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia, Alfonso (Borgias), Alfonso of Aragon, Cesare Borgia, Gioffre Borgia
Summary:

Sancia and the art of survival among the Borgias.

One of my requests had been for Margaret of York, for reasons touched upon in a post I wrote a year ago and because Margaret the survivor always intrigued me, so I was delighted I got a tale about her from Planatagenet expert lareinenoire:

Queen of Swords (5260 words) by La Reine Noire
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 15th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Margaret of York, Richard III of England, Edward IV of England, Mary of Burgundy, Cecily Neville Duchess of York
Additional Tags: Off-screen Character Death, Court Factionalism, Uncivil War, Epic Yorkist Fail
Summary:

For the duchess of Burgundy, there are no easy decisions.